Monday, March 7, 2016

RELIGIOUS FAITH TRUMPS CLIMATE SCIENCE – POLLS

“…A new poll from the Pew Research Center ranks Minnesota in the bottom half of American states in self-proclaimed faith…[Minnesota's] 56 percent belief in God stands 39th [in the U.S.], and the 47 percent daily prayer rate comes in 43rd…The South has a stranglehold on the top of the leaderboard...Mother Jones dug out the shameful fact that a majority of respondents in 10 of the 14 states voting in…[the] Super Tuesday primaries do not believe climate change is "mainly caused by humans." Those results, from a 2014 study by Yale, capture a bunch of the southern states that voted…[But only 48%] of Minnesotans believe in man-made climate change, tying…[with Georgia and] one point below Texas…[Over 95% of scientists accept humans are] to blame for most global warming observed since the 1950s…[Minnesotans] are 8 percent more likely to believe in God than to believe the scientists…”click here for more

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